Note: The discussion will be held in German but will be translated into English.

Our thought has been hacked. Between search engines, social media, and big-data nudging, algorithms have taken control of our daily lives. Self-reinforcing mechanisms allow us to sink into the one-sidedness of our own interests, abandoning ourselves willingly to the dictatorship of data.

We have to talk. How did we become “Like” machines, producing a media-saturated monotony? And much more important: How can we recover control of the discourse – and protect freedom and democracy?